New Knives and Toon Boat fishing

Les got me a back pocket sheath knife for my birthday. Man it is a dandy! The LED flash lite is cool as well.. it has two positions for bright or dim light. Below is a cut picture of the knife by Northwoods and the sheath is by KSF.com

We went to the Elks Lake north of Chanute. The weather was less than ideal at 45 degrees and 20 mph wind. We all got bites and I caught a small crappie for my first fish of the year. Richards new Toon Boat worked well. The anchor system on it works great. We will get some pictures next trip.

Other presents were from Richard. He got me Red Green suspenders and tickets to see Red Green live in  Branson, MO on April 29. I am about to bust a gut. We will stop on the way home and fish for trout at Roaring River. It will be a great trip.

Happy Birthday

We were going fishing today but a couple sets of leaking waders and 40 degree water said we were going to Kansas City to Cabelas to get new ones.
They had stocking foot waders to fit Les and Richard and had GPS units to salivate over. We perused the knife displays as well. I decided that what I want for my birthday is to get my sons the knives they picked out.  We had lunch at Arthur Bryants BBQ and it was DELICIOUS!!!!
We kicked for Humboldt and a late evening steak dinner. WOW it was a fine day. Sunday will be fishing... More later de Paul

Nice day, no fish tho!

Hello all,
The weather was nice today at 40 degrees and sunny. We picked up Les and his boat and made our way to Buffalo. We fished several brush piles where the sonar said there were fish. We even fished the dam wishing for a white bass to bite. We caught several last year about this time and water temperature. We talked to another fisherman who claimed catching several crappie at 10 feet on orange and white.... There was only 9 feet of water where he was fishing. Maybe I will get my radio tuned up later and see who is on the air. More later wish I had some pictures of fish but just us today. de Paul N0NBD

Fishing at Elsmore

The weather was in the 40s and the wind was not too bad so we kicked to Elsmore for some fishing.... Richard had one bite and I had none. I lost two Rooster Tail jigs in the process but it was a nice afternoon to get some air and sun. Maybe next weekend. The long range wx says it might be nice..... de Paul

November Fishing

The wx was 68 degrees and VERY little wind. Richard and I had a HUGE breakfast of BSA issue can scramble and kicked for the lake. No boat today so we thought we would fish the bridge and rocks north of the bridge. We had a few bites under the bridge and was fishing through some serious MUNG on the water. We moved north to Les's rock [Les's favorite rock to fish from... he caught a 5 lb bass off this rock]Richard caught a nice scrappy bass right on the bottom, He then contrived a birds nest in his reel and piped off the fishing for the day. I think it was payback from a couple weeks ago when I skunked him and took only pictures of his small fish..... OH well there will be a next time. A couple years ago we fished on Thanksgiving day while the turkey was cooking..... Oh the 4SQRP group is doing a certificate thing for working 25 members. I got Dale in WY and Phil in Lawrence. Only 23 to go de Paul N0NBD

Sunday Fishing at Buffalo

Les was getting ready to go deer hunting this afternoon so Richard, Josh and I went to Buffalo to fish the brushpiles. The wind was in the north at 15mph and the water was 59 degrees there were fish at the piles according to the locator but we didn't catch any of them. Everyone enjoyed the the afternoon but we called it early as the sky clouded up and cooled off a bit. As it is said " a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work". Until next time de Paul N0NBD

Saturday fishing with grandson

Josh showed up early for breakfast so we woke Richard up and kicked for Buffalo lake. Temperatures were in the 70s, the water was 68 degrees, crappie were in the brushpiles at 12 feet and were biting our black and green tube jigs.... It was a great afternoon with Richard and Josh.... the pictures tell the rest of the story de Paul